Re: g_utf8_collate case sensitivity

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 9/5/01 10:52 AM, Owen Taylor at otaylor redhat com wrote:

>> g_utf8_collate sorts ASCIIbetically case-sensitively (eg, 'Z' < 'a').
>> That's a bug, right? (The docs say "Compares two strings for ordering
>> using the linguistically correct rules for the current locale". I think
>> the rules for my locale say that "bar" sorts before "Foo".)
> 
> The rules for the C locale generally have strcmp() ordering, I think.
> 
> g_utf8_collate() is just implemented in terms of strcoll() currently.

For this very reason, eel_strcoll uses strcoll outside "C" and "POSIX"
locales, but uses eel_strcmp_case_breaks_ties in the "C" and "POSIX"
locales.

It looks like we're still going to need an eel_strcoll (although we'll
switch to g_utf8_collate and a UTF-8 version of
eel_strcmp_case_breaks_ties).

Frankly, I'd strongly suggest providing a function with these kinds of
semantics in glib -- it was my mistake not to bring this up when my remarks
suggested g_utf8_collate.

    -- Darin